tar --unlink ?

jhell jhell at DataIX.net
Fri Oct 9 06:07:30 UTC 2009


On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:58 +0200, guru@ wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> To move a file tree from one place to another I see as an example:
>
> # tar -cf - local | tar --unlink -xpf - -C /mnt
>
> What does '--unlink' do exactly? I can't see it in the man page of
> tar(1). Thanks in advance
>
> 	matthias
>

man 2 unlink

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